Just you were saying you take C.Tolkien's views personally and you were getting those from the interview, i was just wondering which interview this was if not the one in le monde.

I think some people have said the films are aimed at young males, however C.Tolkien has not (to my knowledge) said this, though he has said they are aimed at young people - something i think they definitely are - which there is nothing wrong about either. Just so happens they were liked by many of all ages, sexes, races.

On another point. What i get from reading C.Tolkien's views on the films, its not so much the films (as films), he is criticizing but more how they have (in his view) commercialized his fathers works - making it all about a race to get to mount doom, taking out all the beauty and seriousness of the books.

I think he is too close to the material to ever be happy with any adaptation of his fathers work. I think its a shame he cannot see that from the films have come many more readers of the books and money (after years of dispute from new line cinema).

I think to him people understanding and getting what ME is, is more important than an increase in book sales - was already in the hundreds of millions. As this seems to be his main problem with what the films have done in his opinion.

At the end of the day his is fully entitled to that opinion and i can see where he is coming from and i think if i were his age, having lived and breathed the works for my entire life and had it all made by my father i to would feel the same as he does.